The Principal Engineer in Cloud holds a pivotal leadership role, steering the strategic vision, design, and architecture of the organization’s multi-cloud landscape across initiatives on Cloud. In this capacity, this role will be instrumental in shaping the long-term technical strategy, embracing innovation, and providing hands-on experience as a technical leader for the team; conducting research for emerging industry trends and providing ongoing guidance to bring that to fruition. This role demands a dynamic approach, blending direct technical guidance, mentorship, and active participation in risk and growth management. Collaboration with the cloud leadership team is integral, fostering a hands-on and collective effort towards achieving organizational goals.
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Leadership & Strategy
- Sets the strategic vision for multi cloud platform, aligning with organization goals. Provides leadership in guiding the overall direction of cloud technical initiatives.
- Stays up-to-date with emerging technologies and assess their applicability to the organization.
- Provides strategic insights and recommendations based on data to support decision-making at the organizational level.
- Leads and mentors a team of engineers, provides technical guidance, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
- Coaches and trains engineers on the team on what is possible through short term PoCs.
- Fosters a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing and skill development. Leads technical leadership forums, lunch and learn sessions for the rest of the engineering community in the organization.
- Focuses on business needs through a data driven approach.
- Architecture & Design.
- Supports Costco’s architecture ecosystem by working with Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architects, System Architects, and Platform Architects to ensure security by design.
- Contributes to the design and architecture of the company’s multi cloud network, ensuring it is highly available and scalable.
- Designs, develops, and optimizes cloud infrastructure for complex application architecture.
- Works on system design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging.
- Monitors the performance of cloud platforms and automation tools, provides technical leadership to drive stability and scalability of data products and reporting solutions and data/telemetry to make decisions.
- Establishes and enforces data quality standards and best practices. Implements processes for data validation, cleansing, and accuracy.
Engineering & Automation
- Adheres to and drives modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
- Develops “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
- Troubleshoots and optimizes automation, reliability, and monitoring for delivered products.
- Ensures testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability; and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
- Partners with engineering and development teams to create and maintain documentation for cloud platforms, CI/CD processes and onboarding application infrastructure into the Cloud.
- Implements measures to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.
- Collaboration & Communication.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including enterprise architecture, security and compliance, engineers, platforms engineers, and IT professionals, to develop comprehensive cloud solutions.
- Enforces network security policies and procedures to safeguard against cybersecurity threats and ensure compliance with regulations.
- Works closely with the Information Security team to ensure security policies and best practices are enforced in an effective and scalable manner.
- Ensures the integrity, security, and performance of cloud products and solutions by partnering with platforms, security, networking and governance teams.
- Recommends infrastructure upgrades to support business growth and evolving technology requirements.